Effectiveness of and Countermeasures for Construction of Collective Forestry Comprehensive Reform Experiment Demonstration Area: Taking Fangshan District, Beijing as an Example

Fangshan District of Beijing was officially identified as one of the collective forestry comprehensive reform experiment demonstration areas in 2015, and the construction work was evaluated and accepted at the end of 2017. Based on the empirical study on the Fangshan comprehensive reform experiment demonstration area, this paper aims to investigate the implementation process in the demonstration areas construction, the reform effectiveness being achieved and the existing problems by applying statistical description and case analysis methods. The paper summarizes the achievements made so far and problems that still exist, including difficulty in forest rights mortgage loan, barriers for construction of forest land management supporting service facilities, weak profitability of collective forest management in mountainous areas, and insufficient attention and awareness on the construction work. Combined with local innovative practice and the requirements in new rounds of reform, the paper finally puts forward some reasonable perfecting countermeasures, such as enhancing support of policy, reinforcing institutional innovation and strengthening organizational guarantee to make the demonstration work more effective.